Engines Flashcards
What is on the accessory gearbox?
- Oil feed pump
- Main engine fuel pump (combustion chamber)
- Hydraulic pumps
- Generators
- FADEC alternator
- Pneumatic starter
What does the FADEC control?
What two parameter protections are there?
- Fuel flow
- Accel / decel schedules
- Variable bleed valve and stator vanes
- Turbine clearance
- Idle
- Modulated (bleed/ambient) - flight (clean) or ground
- Approach idle- allows rapid accel
- Reverse Idle- slightly higher than normal idle
- Fuel circulation (IDG)
- N1 / 2 overspeed
- EGT during start
What does the Hydromechanical Unit do?
What meters fuel to the nozzles?
What gives fuel flow feedback to FADEC?
How is the pressure drop kept constant across the FMV?
FF
Fuel hydraulic signals to actuators
Stops overspeeding
Fuel Metering Valve FRV
FMV resolver
Via bypass valve (directs fuel to FRV)
What does FADEC control to manage N1?
FADEC control parameters to achieve what?
Controls FF
* allows N2 to vary*
Ensures FF reading is proportional to FMV position
- limit accel/decel
- avoid engine stall / flameout
- limit max N1/N2
- Maintain air bleed requirement
computes N2 correction according to bleed
What can limit N2 independently from FADEC?
Overspeed Governor
Opens the Fuel Bypass Valve to limit N2 ico: malfunction
Fuel Hydraulic Signals control
LPTCC valves
HPTCC valves
RACC system (MTC neo)
VSVs
VBVs
What do the VSVs and VBVs do?
LP Turbine Clearance Control
HP Turbine Clearance Control
Rotor Active Clearance Control
Modulated Turbince Cooling
Variable Stator Vanes
* Maintain optimum compressor efficiency
* Adequate stall margin
* Fully closed at start
* Fully open at high thrust
Vbv Variable Bleed Valves
* Upstream of HP compressor
* Setting depends on inlet temp and N2
* Full open for start
* Full closed for high thrust
IDG cooling- FADEC /FRV controls flow
What target IDG temp?
What happens if hot oil but only low thrust / airflow?
If it gets hotter?
Hotter still?
When does the FRV close?
- Mixes hot fuel with cold to maintain below 100ºC
- At low thrust, and hot oil, cooling fuel returned to tank (300kg/h)
- Increasing temp: ECU increases min N2
- Further increasing: FADEC increases FF to tank (to 600 kg/h)
- engine shut down
- TO / CLB
- Wing tank level under 300kg
- Surge tank overflow
- Except on ground
- Gravity feed
- Wing tank temp over 52.5ºC (max JetA1 54ºC)
- Except on ground
Five components and lay out of the oil system?
Components
* Tank
* Lub/scavenge pumps
* Fuel/oil heat exchanger
* Filters, chip detectors,
* pressure relief + bypass valve
Layout
* Engine > Scavenge > Filter > Heater > Exchanger > Tank
* Tank > Pump > Filter (bypass) > Sensors > Bearing+gearbox
Cooling system, all controlled by FADEC via the HMU - what are the 3 systems and their functions?
RACC Rotor Active Clearance Control (compressors)
* FADEC via HMU
* Controls clearance between HP compressor rotors and stator case
* 5th stage compressor bleed
* Highest clearance when RACC valve closed
HPTCC system (turbines)
* FADEC via HMU
* Modulates HP compressor bleed flow
* Optimises HP turbine performance
* Reduces EGT
LPTCC
* FADEC via HMU
* Modulates fan bleed airflow (cooling)
How many SECs required to send a reverse signal to engine?
One or both gear compressed to activate?
Just the one
Both gear compressed
Reverser protection: when will auto restow engage?
When will idle protection engage?
Auto Restow
* If one door unstowed when reverse not selected
* Ground only, unless TO (N1 > 70%)
** Idle Protection**
* Idle thrust selected if reverse not selected and
* 4 doors unstowed
* 1 door unstowed/unknown with hydraulic pressure detected
What supplies igniter A when in EMER ELEC?
Igniter A supplied by STAT INV BUS when operative
On the first autostart, only one igniter is used (both for next start after a failure)
When does the igniter engage / disengage?
Above what elevation will both igniters engage on the ground?
Under which three circumstances will automatic continuous ignition engage?
N2 16% until 50%
Above 10,000 ft
Both igniters whenever in the air
- EIU failure
- Flame out
- Ignition delay in start
What faults can FADEC detect during a start?
Abort Sequence?
- Hot start (insufficient air flow to cool combustion chamber)
- Hung start (light but no accel)
- Stall
- Failed light
- Low start air pressure
- Starter time exceeded
- Thrust lever not at idle
Abort Sequence
- Closes HP valve and start valve
- Turns off ignition
- Dry crank
Start sequence?
- Pack valves close (reopen after 30s if no start)
- LP Fuel opens
- Start valve opens
- Ignition @ N2 16% (immediately in flight)
- HP valves @ N2 22% (15% in flight) (20% neo)
- N2 50% (63% neo)
- Start valve closes
- Ignition stops (on ground) (55% neo)
- Pack valves reopen after 30s